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Quinn has a target on her back
“No Democrat who was the front-runner for an open seat for New York City mayor at the dawn of the campaign has been elected mayor since 1953.”
Posted in 2013 Race, Campaign Trail
Quinn vs de Blasio on Horses
Due to her ties to the Queens Democratic machine, Christine Quinn continues to block efforts to take NYC’s carriage horses off the streets of midtown. Bill deBlasio, on the other hand, is taking a stand based on principle, not politics.
Posted in Blocks Animal Protections, Carriage horses
Chelsea Reform Democratic Club May Not Endorse Quinn
“City Council Speaker Christine Quinn might lose the endorsement of the political club that launched her to power…Many Chelsea residents, dissatisfied both with her performance representing their neighborhood and her job as speaker, have joined the [Chelsea Reform Democratic] club in a bid to ensure anyone but Quinn wins its mayoral endorsement.”
Posted in 2013 Race, Campaign Trail
City Council Members Fear Budget Revenge if They Don’t Endorse Quinn
“‘Many City Council members are wary of endorsing candidates in the 2013 mayoral race until after budget season because they’re afraid a vengeful Speaker Christine Quinn will cut their share of $50 million in discretionary funds, DNAinfo.com New York has learned. ‘It’s a legal form of blackmail,’ said a Council Member.”
Posted in Abuse of power, Assault On Democracy
Quinn’s Affordable Housing Plan Denounced as Welfare for Real Estate
Quinn’s plan “prominently features a tax subsidy twice proposed and rejected by the Bloomberg administration as unacceptably generous to the real estate industry, according to the New York Times.”
Posted in Backroom Deals, Real Estate
Quinn cuts funding to Queens as political punishment
“Christine Quinn, as speaker, hurt the residents of Queens multiple times not only on social issues. She cut funding of groups to North Queens and South Queens because she was trying to punish and harass Councilman Tony Avella and Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, with no thought of the constituencies that would suffer. . . Christine Quinn has cut funding to districts where she is having petty and caddy outbursts towards some council members. She turned the City Council into a reality show version of the movie Mean Girls.”
Posted in Assault On Democracy, Autocracy
Queens Politics on Quinn
“Once people on a city-wide level start seeing her ranting and raving and punishing her own constituents, she will turn people off and is going to have a tough road ahead against more kinder, less vicious individuals such as Bill Thompson and Bill Deblasio.”
Quinn gets campaign contribution from Coca Cola
“The American soft-drink industry, fighting Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s restrictions on sugary drink sizes, is courting a lawmaker who could eventually have the influence to overturn the rules: Christine C. Quinn. . . Executives from the Coca-Cola Company donated nearly $10,000 this month to Ms. Quinn’s campaign.”
Quinn provoked hisses and harrumphs at a mayoral debate in Harlem
“City Council Speaker Christine Quinn provoked hisses and harrumphs at a mayoral debate in Harlem Tuesday night when she signaled she would retain Raymond Kelly as police commissioner. ‘Anybody who is mayor would be lucky if Kelly stayed,’ she said — prompting the crowd’s jeers.”
Posted in Human rights record, Obstructs Human Rights